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TrueQuotation: The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. — Diane Wakoski

riza_carbos: I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. -Diane Wakoski RALPHGAIL AT TEENCLASHCon

Godgift64107811: I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. -Diane Wakoski kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

TomSnarsky: you are right Diane Wakoski

night__society: so I uh, may have bought the most expensive book I’ve ever paid for today—Diane Wakoski’s “The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems” (2nd printing). I could weep.

cmacfin: Check out The Magician's Feastletters by Diane Wakoski (1982 Signed w/ poemTrade pb - VG+)

tulip_incognito: Diane Wakoski's Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch from Black Sparrow Press was an impactful book in 2022. I love how the press is committed to publishing long books by important poets! See also Another Woman Who Looks Like Me by Lyn Lifshin & No Respect by Gerard Malanga.

lukacsmoe: A lot of sixties poetry inevitably sounds like it -- the emoting, the haranguing bluster -- but Diane Wakoski's was (and remains) stone cold fire. Timely in its refusal of therapeutic consolation and taking on the challenge of rendering wounds qua psychic defenses in poetic form

cjsarett: Diane Wakoski, “The Hitchhikers” —“They burn you/like the berries of mountain ash in August”

PoetNotRockStar: “The poems I write are about the fragments, the broken bridges, and unlit fences in my life. For the poet, the poem is the measure of all he’s [or she’s] lost, or never seen, or what has no life, unless he [or she] gives it life with words.” — Diane Wakoski

tulip_incognito: the phrase “But you thot” in Overnight projects with wood? Diane Wakoski was truly ahead of her time

EAdwinEdwards: Saturday morning w coffee & the inimitable Diane Wakoski

ThePoetryCenter: Diane Wakoski reads "The Bouquet" October 1974 at SF Museum of Art — The...

slanedelarge: Also signed by Diane Wakoski...very rare

mcmubria: I simply don’t know why I can’t do it anymore. —Diane Wakoski

mcmubria: from this recent interview of Wakoski by Daniel Nester

maglionero12: The Lizard King and Diane Wakoski. Super Poetry Pow.

thejohnyohe: My epistolary essay in the form of letters to my teacher/mentor Diane Wakoski:

djgreer: The sign must come like dawn. You cannot see its arrival, but know when it is there.  —Diane Wakoski

lizhenry: Is... is there really a book called The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems by Diane Wakoski?! I want to believe.

tulip_incognito: I feel bad for throwing it out but I’m so tired of men. In my work I return the favor and objectify them back. I have unfortunately fallen into this lineage, but I won’t pass it on — I want to be like Diane Wakoski, I want to flatten all those men into an idea. Is that love?

MayaCPopa: Forgive me then, if the poems I write are about the fragments, the broken bridges, and unlit fences in my life. For the poet, the poem is not the measure of his love. It is the measure of all he's lost, or never seen… — Diane Wakoski

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